These four Chara Stand Plates were my planned purchases for this month. I have been interested in this series of display stands and wanted to get a bunch at once. Pleasantly surprising was the version for Fumina, which I did not realize had existed. I knew that I was going to buy it the moment I saw it. These Chara Stand Plates started off from Tekketsu no Orphans, but it will be great if this line continues being developed to include characters from other Gundam series, especially more from Build Fighter.

On the occasion of being out and about, the Yellow Submarine in Chiba had these packs on their shelves next to an example display. Normally, I would hold just a simple interest but not necessarily enough for me to make the purchases. However, the example display was quite appealing to me, which was a Graze Ein model standing with the Graze Ein card. The Graze Ein card’s scene is the close up of the Graze Ein’s head, when the visor opened to reveal the glowing red eye that which penetrates into one’s soul. I ended up buying a couple packs, aiming for any from Tekketsu no Orpahans or Gundam UC.

In the end, here are the cards I decided to keep as a part of my collection of goods. Sadly, I could not attain the Graze Ein card, but I did pull the secret rare version of Gundam Barbatos sitting in the reactor room, plus the Gundam Kimaris card. I knew that the Barbatos cad had to be the secret version because of the wicked metallic shine it had. The other cards I pulled but will be handing off to friends are of Casval from Origin and some Zeon units from UC. I still really want the Graze Ein card, so maybe I will make more attempts in the future.

Most unexpected was the purchases of these One Piece collection cards. My local supermarket had a sale on various shokugan stuff, and out of them, these packs of One Piece Film Gold collectible cards were the most appealing to me. I absolutely did not plan to buy all 11 packs the store had, but ended up doing so because I wanted to gather Luffy’s entire team (but not necessarily every card).

So first I bought 3 packs, then another 2, then 3 more, and finally bought the final 3 packs the store had. Above are the results for every pack. I really wanted the card of the Luffy on the cover of the wrapper, and ironically, I pulled that card on the final pack I opened. But! The fact that I was able to get that card of Luffy in the end, as well as have a card for every member of Luffy’s pirate team, made for a happy ending. めでたしめでたし！

In total, there are supposed to be 35 different cards. I bought 11 packs and thus have 22 of them. Of the 22 I pulled, these 3 cards are my favorites. ❤